Subject: Fantastic Music Making Machine.


Mind Blowing Engineering – (Read Story First)

This is unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in the catcher cones.

This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between The Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa. Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa - yes, farm equipment!

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video, but as you can see it was well worth the effort.

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University of Iowa and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.